Thank you for sharing your experiences.
It's certainly nice to have a setup that will work both near and far, as in my experience when one sets up for one extreme or the other, Mr. Murphy will arrive with his lawbook to present me with a shot that is the antithesis of what I had initially planned!
And that is often what happens when you hunt in unfamiliar territory, where you expect the shots to be short range and it turns out the animal just happens to be in open country 350-450 yards away. So you end up taking a rifle and load that will work well for the longer shots but not perfect for thick cover (e.g. 20 inch barrel short action and lower bc bullets but with excellent close-range terminal performance).
